Purpose: Development and modernisation of some infrastructure components as support for ecosystem research and biodiversity and human resource training within the University of Bucharest in related fields. The infrastructure elements proposed under this project are mainly within the LIFEWATCH- ERIC research infrastructure (for which supporting documents are also sent) but also to other infrastructures with which the University of Bucharest or entities of the University of Bucharest have developed collaboration agreements or memoranda of understanding (such as Integrated Carbon Observation System- ERIC infrastructures) or Danubius-RI (ESFRI). It is worth mentioning that all these infrastructures are active (conf. with OM No 624/03.10.2017) in the field of Energy, Environment and Climate Change (SNCDI smart specialisation area) – linked to the Energy and Environment fields of the ESFRI Roadmap, with Europeana relevance. The project responds to the need for the technological alignment of research infrastructures in Romania to those existing at European level, being part of the efforts to coagulate cross-border research entities capable of concentrating and mobilising material and human efforts to solve urgent acute problems (which are part of natural capital management for example) but also fundamental research. At national level, the purpose of the project is related to the development of a high performance computing infrastructure together with distributed data-generating infrastructure (laboratories, modules, sub-modules) to ensure the integration, storage and analysis of data as well as their distribution to stakeholders in order to assess the natural capital and the induced impact on socio-ecological systems by the anthropogenic activities. The project is proposed as an essential “element” within the LIFEWATCH infrastructure (LifeWatch, E-Science European Infrastructure for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research). In concrete terms, the project will provide advanced capabilities for analysis, inter- and transdisciplinary integration, and modelling in support of: a) developing the knowledge of dynamic and complex relations between Biodiversity/Natural Capital and Social and Industrial Metabolism; B) elaboration of development scenarios and c) substantiation of sustainable development strategies and policies in spaces and for broad timeframes. The specific objective is to create and modernise elements of the existing infrastructure at the University of Bucharest as a contribution to Lifewatch Romania and as a support for carrying out research and development activities and coupling with Lifewatch infrastructure at European level.